Google Hangouts is a great messaging app for those of us who make considerable use of the Google
Hangouts IM platform and SMS. XHangouts is tasked with improving the Google Hangouts experience on Android. From resolving deep technical issues to cool graphical UI tweaks.

Featured twice on XDA Xposed Tuesday! (features v2.1)

Features

Easily enable or disable features without rebooting
Automatically rotate photos taken by your camera
High quality image resizing algorithm.
Tweak MMS, Google Voice, and Hangouts image dimensions
Choose between JPEG and PNG images at varying quality levels with an easy-to-use interface.
Change the enter key on your keyboard to add a new line or send your message (as opposed to opening the emoji keyboard).
(Currently deactivated) MMS APN Splicing. Send and receive MMS very quickly (and waste less battery) while on your mobile connection.
Personalize Hangouts! Choose from 23 different material design colors.
Activate the dark or AMOLED-friendly black theme to make Hangouts easier on the eyes and battery.
Change the chat bubble and text colors in conversations!
Hide the video and audio call toolbar buttons.
Enhance the Hangouts call button logic
Toggle the app's launcher presence
Access XHangouts easily from an entry in the Hangouts menu
Send a message and lock your device with one tap
Customize ringtones and sounds
Disable the proximity sensor
Access the hidden and powerful Hangouts debug menu
Works on Xposed for Lollipop and Marshmallow!
Free and open-source software. No nags. No data collection. No secrets.

Support for Google Hangouts 24.0.182154523
Blocked forced upgrades in supported circumstances
Shrunk APK by about 20% (enabled ProGuard).
Improved error handling in a couple submodules
Added some new version mismatch warnings in the settings
XHangouts v2.17-h18 is a special release of XHangouts v2.17 which supports Google Hangouts 18.0.150813355. Hangouts 18 with XHangouts v2.17-h18 supports merged conversations. It is only available on GitHub. See: github.com/kmark/XHangouts/releases/tag/v2.17

This release would not have been possible without the unrelenting support of ImADev @ XDA.